Tim Ring reports: Dutch police have arrested two teenagers suspected of hacking hundreds of influential Instagram users and exploiting their tens of thousands of followers. […] The 18 and 19 year-old males – from towns near Rotterdam and The Hague – are accused of stealing the passwords from key Instagram account holders, who may be…
Month: March 2016
NZ: Silverstream Health Centre patients reassured after email gaffe involving online patient portal
Blake Crayton-Brown reports: Patients at Silverstream Health Centre are being assured an accidental disclosure of patient information was a one-off. GP Dr Marko Kljakovic accidentally sent a message to all patients signed up to the centre’s Manage My Health portal early last week. The message, intended to be a reply to a single patient, contained advice about diet, instructions…
CA: St. Joseph Hospital data breach patients to receive settlement checks
St. Joseph Health patients whose medical information was released in a 2012 data breach will receive checks for $242 in April as part of a class-action settlement finalized last month. Nearly 31,000 people whose personal health information – including lab results and body mass indexes – was made available on the Internet will split $7.5…
GhostShell, On the Record – If You Knew Then What You Know Now….
This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” We asked GhostShell to look back and tell us if he would do anything differently. Here was part of his answer: if I could invent the time machine I would go back, never join Anonymous,…
GhostShell, On the Record – Difficulty Finding Work and Risk of Arrest
This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” How did GhostShell avoid arrest for so many years? Was his OpSec that good, or is Romanian law enforcement a bit uninterested? We asked him how it is that he was never identified or arrested. On one…
GhostShell, On the Record – Psychological Factors
This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” In “Dark Hacktivism,” GhostShell wrote, “Always remember to play the part of a normal human being,” We asked whether he felt he was playing the part and about his other comments in Dark Hacktivism on psychological…